='u' is no longer done automatically.

History.txt

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ This will run foo.feature at line 15 and bar.feature at line 6, 45 and 111.
 * Directly creating a Table meant the scenario table header was never set which was causing a formatter error (#91 Joseph Wilk)
 
 === Removed features
+* $KCODE='u' is no longer done automatically. Developers should do that explicitly when needed in step definitions or env.rb.
 * Step definition without a block being treated as pending (#64 Joseph Wilk)
 * The --line option has been removed. Use the new file.feature:line format instead.
 

examples/i18n/ar/features/step_definitons/calculator_steps.rb

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+$KCODE='u'
 require 'spec'
 $:.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../lib')
 require 'calculator'

lib/cucumber.rb

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 $:.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__)) unless
   $:.include?(File.dirname(__FILE__)) || $:.include?(File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__)))
 
+require 'jcode'
 require 'cucumber/platform'
 require 'rubygems'
 require 'treetop/runtime'

lib/cucumber/formatters/ansicolor.rb

@@ -1,24 +1,20 @@
-gem 'term-ansicolor'
-
 # Hack to work around Win32/Console, which bundles a licence-violating, outdated
 # copy of term/ansicolor that doesn't implement Term::ANSIColor#coloring=. 
 # We want the official one!
+gem 'term-ansicolor'
 $LOAD_PATH.each{|path| $LOAD_PATH.unshift($LOAD_PATH.delete(path)) if path =~ /term-ansicolor/}
 require 'term/ansicolor'
 
 if $CUCUMBER_WINDOWS_MRI
   begin
     require 'Win32/Console/ANSI' 
   rescue LoadError
-    STDERR.puts "You must gem install win32console to get coloured output on this ruby platform (#{PLATFORM})"
+    STDERR.puts "You must gem install win32console to get coloured output on MRI/Windows"
     Term::ANSIColor.coloring = false
   end
-else
-  $KCODE='u'
 end
 
 Term::ANSIColor.coloring = false if !STDOUT.tty? || ($CUCUMBER_WINDOWS && !$CUCUMBER_WINDOWS_MRI)
-require 'jcode'
 
 module Cucumber
   module Formatters
@@ -91,7 +87,7 @@ module ANSIColor
         end
       end
 
-      #Not supported in Term::ANSIColor
+      # Not supported in Term::ANSIColor
       def grey(m)
         if ::Term::ANSIColor.coloring?
           "\e[90m#{m}\e[0m" 

spec/spec_helper.rb

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 gem 'rspec'
 require 'spec'
 
+$KCODE='u'
 $:.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../lib')
 require 'cucumber'
 require 'cucumber/treetop_parser/feature_en'